Jeff Turner
@jeffsturner.bsky.social
Chief EV nerd at Dunsky, lives in a passive house with a passive house nerd (and a dinosaur nerd, but he hasn’t produced any dinosaurs yet).
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Wolverine
Flying squirrel
Ratfish
Haida Gwaii black bear
Fin whale
Wolverine
Flying squirrel
Ratfish
Haida Gwaii black bear
Fin whale
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Grizzly bear
Porcupine
Mountain lion
Frosted tip nudibranch
Western tanager (my fav bird)
Grizzly bear
Porcupine
Mountain lion
Frosted tip nudibranch
Western tanager (my fav bird)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Moose
Stoplight parrotfish
Box turtle
Elephant
Wild horse
Moose
Stoplight parrotfish
Box turtle
Elephant
Wild horse
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Wolverine
Flying squirrel
Ratfish
Haida Gwaii black bear
Fin whale
Wolverine
Flying squirrel
Ratfish
Haida Gwaii black bear
Fin whale
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Vehicle-grid Integration (VGI) can play a crucial role in helping utilities manage the growing electricity demand from electric vehicles, but Canada’s fragmented and inconsistent policy landscape risks slowing adoption.
Read on: buff.ly/VhnqM7s
#ElectricVehiclesCanada #EVPolicy #V2G #VGI
Read on: buff.ly/VhnqM7s
#ElectricVehiclesCanada #EVPolicy #V2G #VGI
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Vehicle-grid Integration (VGI) can play a crucial role in helping utilities manage the growing electricity demand from electric vehicles, but Canada’s fragmented and inconsistent policy landscape risks slowing adoption.
Read on: buff.ly/VhnqM7s
#ElectricVehiclesCanada #EVPolicy #V2G #VGI
Read on: buff.ly/VhnqM7s
#ElectricVehiclesCanada #EVPolicy #V2G #VGI
It’s so reassuring to see this happen as a counterpoint to whatever the US is doing to itself. Also, as a guy with a very limited self improvement track record, I’m just proud that I can place all 20 of those countries onto the map with 100% confidence, all thanks to rigorous daily Worldle training.
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
August 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It’s so reassuring to see this happen as a counterpoint to whatever the US is doing to itself. Also, as a guy with a very limited self improvement track record, I’m just proud that I can place all 20 of those countries onto the map with 100% confidence, all thanks to rigorous daily Worldle training.
I believe it was @johnvoelcker.bsky.social who was saying just the other day that it was odd that spy photos of the new Bolt hadn’t popped up yet. It’s like you willed these photos into existence, John!
July 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I believe it was @johnvoelcker.bsky.social who was saying just the other day that it was odd that spy photos of the new Bolt hadn’t popped up yet. It’s like you willed these photos into existence, John!
Great podcast about PG&E’s approach to innovation, but, despite my fear of being cast away to the island full of nerds who “but actually” talented communicators on the internet, I need to make sure @volts.wtf stops mixing up Volts and Amps. I mean, it’s the name of the damn podcast right??
Today on Volts: PG&E, California's biggest utility, has ... had its problems (ahem). But in the last few years it has launched a concerted effort to accelerate innovation: on EV charging, microgrids, undergrounded transmission lines, & more. I talk to the guy running that sprawling program.
PG&E tries to prove that a big utility can innovate
Quinn Nakayama on PG&E's push to innovate on flexible interconnection and smart electrification.
www.volts.wtf
July 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Great podcast about PG&E’s approach to innovation, but, despite my fear of being cast away to the island full of nerds who “but actually” talented communicators on the internet, I need to make sure @volts.wtf stops mixing up Volts and Amps. I mean, it’s the name of the damn podcast right??
Is it a problem that I recognize which charger this is in the photo despite not having used the charger in question since maybe 2015? (Vancouver, Beach Ave - one of the ones installed with the mini cell towers)
BloombergNEF predicts robust EV sales in 2025, uncertainty after
While electric vehicles sales are set to rise in 2025, BloombergNEF’s longer term forecast signals a possible slowdown in adoption driven by unstable U.S. policies.
#EVs #EVsky
While electric vehicles sales are set to rise in 2025, BloombergNEF’s longer term forecast signals a possible slowdown in adoption driven by unstable U.S. policies.
#EVs #EVsky
BloombergNEF predicts robust EV sales in 2025, uncertainty after
EV sales are set to rise in 2025, but BloombergNEF’s long-term forecast signals possible slowdown driven by unstable U.S. policies
electricautonomy.ca
July 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Is it a problem that I recognize which charger this is in the photo despite not having used the charger in question since maybe 2015? (Vancouver, Beach Ave - one of the ones installed with the mini cell towers)
It’s absurd to draw a line between PHEVs with greater or less than 80km of range, but not draw a line between HEVs and <80km range PHEVs. Yes, strong PHEVs are good, yes there’s a risk that short range PHEVs don’t get plugged in, but there is a 100% chance that HEVs are 100% powered by fossil fuels.
NEW: Quebec expands ZEV standard to include hybrid vehicles
Hybrid-electrics will now generate a half credit while plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles with 80 km-plus electric range will generate a full credit.
Read the full story on our website.
#EVs #HybridVehicles #Quebec #EVsky
Hybrid-electrics will now generate a half credit while plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles with 80 km-plus electric range will generate a full credit.
Read the full story on our website.
#EVs #HybridVehicles #Quebec #EVsky
Quebec expands ZEV standard to include hybrid vehicles
Hybrid-electrics vehicles now generate a half credit while plug-in hybrid-electrics with 80 km-plus electric range will earn a full credit
electricautonomy.ca
July 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It’s absurd to draw a line between PHEVs with greater or less than 80km of range, but not draw a line between HEVs and <80km range PHEVs. Yes, strong PHEVs are good, yes there’s a risk that short range PHEVs don’t get plugged in, but there is a 100% chance that HEVs are 100% powered by fossil fuels.
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A tank driving slowly down a street turns out not to be all that interesting.
And tanks 2-50 don't really add much to the spectacle.
It's like no one really thought this through.
And tanks 2-50 don't really add much to the spectacle.
It's like no one really thought this through.
June 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A tank driving slowly down a street turns out not to be all that interesting.
And tanks 2-50 don't really add much to the spectacle.
It's like no one really thought this through.
And tanks 2-50 don't really add much to the spectacle.
It's like no one really thought this through.
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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Devoting so much land to growing corn for ethanol is dumb and counterproductive. Converting just over 3% of this land to solar would produce more energy, reduce irrigation and fertilizer needs and be a financial benefit for farmers www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...
New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It’s no contest.
In fact, it would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one hectare of land covered in solar panels.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
April 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Devoting so much land to growing corn for ethanol is dumb and counterproductive. Converting just over 3% of this land to solar would produce more energy, reduce irrigation and fertilizer needs and be a financial benefit for farmers www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...
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Cool story about a community in Nunavut that will be able to turn off the Diesel Generators during the summer months, thanks to solar energy installations: "Our current generations will be able to hear the silence that our ancestors once did"
From CBC's "What on Earth" Newsletter.
From CBC's "What on Earth" Newsletter.
April 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Cool story about a community in Nunavut that will be able to turn off the Diesel Generators during the summer months, thanks to solar energy installations: "Our current generations will be able to hear the silence that our ancestors once did"
From CBC's "What on Earth" Newsletter.
From CBC's "What on Earth" Newsletter.
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Hey Climate folks: Apparently there is a discussion among many in the global climate community to have NYC Climate Week moved to Montreal. Climate advocates/experts don’t want to go to US because of border concerns - and general clampdown on discussing climate in US.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
April 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Hey Climate folks: Apparently there is a discussion among many in the global climate community to have NYC Climate Week moved to Montreal. Climate advocates/experts don’t want to go to US because of border concerns - and general clampdown on discussing climate in US.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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If Canada is looking for nation-building projects that improve affordability, enhance reliability, reduce our reliance on the US, and set us up for the future, don’t have to look much further than interprovincial transmission.
By me and Philippe Dunsky:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...
By me and Philippe Dunsky:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...
Canada needs a nation-building project. It should start with interprovincial power transmission
The future is electric – and Canada should leverage its provinces’ complementary strengths and needs to build an east-to-west network and reach our full energy potential
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If Canada is looking for nation-building projects that improve affordability, enhance reliability, reduce our reliance on the US, and set us up for the future, don’t have to look much further than interprovincial transmission.
By me and Philippe Dunsky:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...
By me and Philippe Dunsky:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...
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Just your typical @volts.wtf thread. Starts with a dig at regional pizza and ends (inevitably) with finer details about CoPs for district heating 😂
I love this place
I love this place
March 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just your typical @volts.wtf thread. Starts with a dig at regional pizza and ends (inevitably) with finer details about CoPs for district heating 😂
I love this place
I love this place
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Quebec hit 30.9% for the year. In Q4 2024, new BEV and PHEV vehicle sales reached a spectacular 40%.
March 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Quebec hit 30.9% for the year. In Q4 2024, new BEV and PHEV vehicle sales reached a spectacular 40%.
If you had asked me in January 2024 to predict Quebec’s Jan 2025 EV sales immediately after the rebates drop from 7k to 4k, I would have assumed a big year-over-year drop, but data from the rebate program suggests closer to a doubling.
Québec rapporte avoir versé 12 685 incitatifs pour l'achat de véhicules électriques en janvier 2025, soit 10 393 BEV et 2292 PHEV, soit à peu près le double que le même mois l'an dernier. Le programme prend une pause de 2 mois pour revenir (peut-être?) en avril. #evsky
www.quebec.ca/transports/t...
www.quebec.ca/transports/t...
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you had asked me in January 2024 to predict Quebec’s Jan 2025 EV sales immediately after the rebates drop from 7k to 4k, I would have assumed a big year-over-year drop, but data from the rebate program suggests closer to a doubling.
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Happy Winter Solstice!
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
December 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Happy Winter Solstice!
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
This is gonna be tricky. EV incentives in Quebec were already planned to drop from $7k to $4k on Jan 1. Now we learn that the huge surge in demand over the past few months (eg 34% market share in Q3) means that the program has run out of money sooner than expected.
J'ai acheté juste à temps! Victime de leur immense succès, les incitatifs du Québec pour l'achat de véhicules électriques seront "temporairement suspendus" à compter de février prochain. www.journaldequebec.com/2024/12/16/s...
Subvention à l’achat de véhicules électriques: Québec n'a plus d’argent et suspendra son programme
Québec n’a plus d’argent dans son programme Roulez vert en raison de l’explosion de la demande pour l’achat de véhicules électriques.
www.journaldequebec.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:03 AM
This is gonna be tricky. EV incentives in Quebec were already planned to drop from $7k to $4k on Jan 1. Now we learn that the huge surge in demand over the past few months (eg 34% market share in Q3) means that the program has run out of money sooner than expected.
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“Why is Toronto traffic so terrible?” wonders man in car
"Why is Toronto traffic so terrible?" wonders man in car
TORONTO – Reports from this morning rush hour suggest that people who drive everywhere continue to wonder why Toronto traffic is so bad. “I don’t understand it,” said Lloyd Travers. “Every day I drive...
thebeaverton.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:03 PM
“Why is Toronto traffic so terrible?” wonders man in car
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It warms my heart to see a “how to rewild a river” article in a major North American newspaper. And I’ve scrambled over these kinds of logjams deep in BC, never understanding their importance Thank you @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social 😄❤️ www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
The power of a logjam: A vision of the Northwest’s rivers of old
A mighty heap of logs can provide many benefits to salmon and people along the Lower Elwha River.
www.seattletimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
It warms my heart to see a “how to rewild a river” article in a major North American newspaper. And I’ve scrambled over these kinds of logjams deep in BC, never understanding their importance Thank you @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social 😄❤️ www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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The stickiness of the IRA is a feature, not a bug. More than 3/4 of announced IRA clean energy investment is going to Republican districts. In a close house, it won't take many votes to thwart a repeal of manufacturing tax credits.
November 16, 2024 at 12:12 AM
The stickiness of the IRA is a feature, not a bug. More than 3/4 of announced IRA clean energy investment is going to Republican districts. In a close house, it won't take many votes to thwart a repeal of manufacturing tax credits.